📜 This Day in History

June 8

• 218Led by the inexperienced Gannys, Elagabalus's legions defeated the forces of Roman emperor Macrinus at the Battle of Antioch.
• 1826In York, Upper Canada, members of the Family Compact destroyed William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press in the Types Riot after Mackenzie accused them of corruption.
• 1941World War II: The Allies commenced the Syria–Lebanon campaign against Vichy French possessions in the Levant.
• 1967The Israeli Air Force attacked the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty in international waters, killing 34 people and wounding 171 others.
• 1982Falklands War: The Argentine Air Force attacked British transport ships while unloading supplies off Bluff Cove in the Falkland Islands, killing 56 British servicemen and wounding 150 others.
• 2009Two American journalists, having been arrested for illegal entry into North Korea, were sentenced to twelve years hard labor before being pardoned two months later.

Born on this day

• 1810Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (died 1856)
• 1867Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (died 1959)
• 1921Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (died 2008)
• 1955Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web